Today we celebrate the introduction of legislation to repeal North Carolina’s “right-to-work” law and the prohibition on public employee collective bargaining, G.S. 95-98–two relics from the segregation era that belong in the dustbin of history.
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January 26, 2023
Member Spotlight: Scott Mullins (IAFF)
North Carolina currently doesn’t allow public sector workers like me to have union contracts, but it’s still worth fighting together in unions to improve safety and pay for the benefit of our families. Even without collective bargaining, unions like mine can make a difference. No one is going to look out for fire fighters like we do, and when we work together, we’re able to make gains, especially locally.
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“This bill is about restoring the full rights of public employees who are currently given the right to unionize but can’t enjoy the protections and benefits of a collectively negotiated contract,” said Sen. Nickel. “These employees deserve equal treatment under the law, and now is the time to give it to them.”
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Lawmakers, workers, and labor and community leaders will announce legislation to value public service by repealing North Carolina’s Jim Crow-era ban on collective bargaining agreements at a legislative press conference April 24th.
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September 18, 2018
Everyone Needs an ‘Equity Card’
The movie 9 to 5 came out when I was in sixth grade. It was a hit, even in West Texas. The decade that was the 80s was full of “Work Bitch” songs – beats to sweat off the toxic stress of the union-busting Reagan era. But no “Eye of the Tiger” could compare with the thrill of the fight that Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda carried out together on screen.
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August 12, 2018
Make “Labor Union” Sense Common Again
When people ask why I spend some of my very rare free hours advocating for labor unions in my new home state, the answer is simple. I want labor union sense to be again this region’s common sense.
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December 11, 2015
USDOL Perez: Fight economic inequality with collective bargaining
“The successful UAW negotiations demonstrate once again that collective bargaining is essential to a balanced economy,” writes U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez in the Detroit Free Press
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April 4, 2014
MaryBe McMillan on why unions matter
MaryBe on why raising wages should matter to all North Carolinians, how collective bargaining power can achieve pay equality, and who are the anti-union forces trying to stop us.
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March 7, 2014
Angaza Laughinghouse: The Public’s Power in the South
“Laws in and of themselves don’t grant power,” says Angaza Laughinghouse. “We can have collective bargaining rights, but if workers aren’t taking workplace action, nothing is going to happen.”
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June 24, 2011
Collective Bargaining: Real People. Real Impact.
As multiple states around the country attempt to undercut workers’ rights and pass anti-collective bargaining laws, the AFL-CIO and Laughing Liberally have teamed up to produce a series of videos illustrating the importance of collective bargaining. The videos coincide with the launch of a new website, collectivebargainingfacts.com.
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Results from a recent USA Today/Gallup poll show a clear majority of Americans favor protecting collective bargaining. How did Fox News choose to report the results of the poll? It chose to lie about them, of course.
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February 8, 2011
Airport Security Officers Granted Basic Rights
After a nine-year battle to secure workplace protections for Transportation Security Administration employees, the American Federation of Government Employees today praised Transportation Security Officers across the country for their unwavering commitment and tenacity in fighting for collective bargaining rights to be granted.
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December 7, 2010
Public Safety Worker Collective Bargaining Bill at Risk
Call Sen. Kay Hagan to Demand Vote on S.3991 The United States Senate is expected to vote on Wednesday on whether or not to debate the National Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (S.3991). The bill would extend minimum collective bargaining rights nationwide to firefighters, police, EMS, and other public safety workers. It overwhelmingly passed the […]
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July 9, 2010
Public Safety Bargaining Bill Passes U.S. House
Bill now moves to Senate The U.S. House of Representatives took an important step forward in providing fire fighters, police officers, and other public safety workers collective bargaining rights by passing the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act as an amendment to the war supplemental spending bill moving through the Congress. Most states already provide bargaining […]
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July 5, 2010
Richard O’Brien, PFFPNC, Makes Plea for H.O.P.E.
Coalition for public employees needs support
The campaign to end the ban on public employee collective bargaining in North Carolina has been a long one. The work of the North Carolina Hear Our Public Employees Coalition (HOPE) must continue, especially in hard economic times. Even for a group that runs as efficiently as HOPE on a shoe-string budget, that effort takes money.
Richard O’Brien, Secretary-Treasurer for the Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics of North Carolina, has written a letter urging our member unions and individuals in the community to dig deep and continue to fund this vital effort to repeal the Jim Crow law that bans bargaining for public employees:
Now is not the time to slack off, as HOPE has been securing more and more legislators who support the repeal.
This is where we need YOUR help! Our larger contributors have not been able to help out in the way that they would like to be able to contribute. So rather than having a few large contributors, HOPE is counting on numerous individuals like you to make smaller donations of $10, $15, or $20.
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